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It's not disingenuous. The HN example was literally the first one I tried. It's what happens in the real world. The real world doesn't adhere to standards, much of the time.

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Just like what you've done with Selenium, such a wrapper could be written for Playwright (I think that's what most developers end up doing anyways, just in a more domain-specific manner)

This project was started long before Playwright existed.

I's an OSS tool that had very good reason to be made the way it was at that time, and continues to be useful (in my opinion).

It is a useful tool, similar to others that accomplish the same task (WATIR and Capybara in Ruby, for example). My point was that the comparison of a wrapper to an underlying library is a bit apples to oranges, as a similar wrapper could be written for Playwright as well. I haven't looked at the code, but I assume Helium's API could be used to support Playwright (which itself was an evolution of Puppeteer).

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